Increase Your Awareness To Decrease Your Nail Biting Habit

If you bite your nails from boredom, habit or stress there are some steps you can try to change your habit. Since nail biting is a subconscious and automatic behavior, you will need to increase your awareness of the times you do bite your nails.

Are you stressed? Bored? Hungry? Anxious? Tired? What feelings are going on inside you when you bite your nails? Recognizing the underlying feeling can be the first step in moving your unconscious habit to your awareness level.

Recognizing your personal feeling triggers can help you find patterns which trigger your nail biting behavior.

Record Your Findings
Get a tiny spiral notebook. Each time you get the urge to bite your nails; write down what you were doing when you bite your nails. Note the times you bite your nails and write them down in the notebook. After a few days you will see the times and triggers for your nail biting.


Take a few minutes to look at your notebook. When you review the information you recorded what patterns do you see?

What were you doing? What was happening in your life and how did you feel about it?

Keys To Change: Decreased Access, Increased Awareness to Make It Easy to Succeed

1. Substitute another behavior or activity
a. Put a piece of hard candy in your mouth
b. Substitute another action such as playing with silly putty or play dough
c. Get worry or prayer beads to finger instead of biting
d. Carry a small smooth rock in a tiny cloth carrying case. The case can be felt, velvet, satin or some high touch texture material. The distraction can be a good substitution.

2. Make it more difficult to bite your nails.
a. Have acrylic nails applied.
b. Get a couple of pair of thin gloves or nail moisturizer gloves. Wear them at your trigger times.
c. Paint your nails with a polish that tastes bad
d. Knit, crochet or otherwise occupy your hands. Having snacks doesn’t necessarily help and may lead to weight gain. (Which can be stressful in itself)

3. Make yourself more aware of your nails
a. Get a professional manicure.
b. Polish your nails with clear polish
c. Buff your nails to keep a shine on your nails.

4. Get and use a cuticle cream to minimize hangnails.
a. This decreases the need to pick and bite.
b. Cuticle oil works well and most of them taste horrible.
c. Get one of those small containers of nail moisturizer and rub in and on your nails and cuticles. The nail moisturizer will minimize the dryness of your nails and in the long run decrease the peeling. Burt’s Bees has a Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream that smells good and does a great job of moisturizing. It’s also small enough to tuck in your jeans pocket or in your purse.


5. Have a small emery board with you at all times.
Have a rough nail edge? File it don’t bite it. Bitten nails tend to be thinner and peel and crack with rough edges.

Overcoming the nail biting habit takes time. Reward and recognize yourself for each step you take. These tips may be the start of a change in the nail biting habit for you.

Change Your Mindset For A Nail Biting Cure

Nail biting is one of those unconscious impulsive habits many of us have. The reasons behind fingernail biting may include any of the following:

· Nervousness or anxiety
· Boredom
· Frustration
· Habit

But how do you change a behavior that is unconscious? Your nail biting cure can include several different steps.

· Increasing your awareness of the timing of when you bite your nails, is one step you can take. By learning when you “bite or chew” your nails you can either decrease those activities or find tactics to make it easier to do so without nail biting.

· Focus on how nice your nails will look when you stop biting them. Cut out pictures in magazines of nails and hands that look like you would like your hands to look. Post the pictures around your home and in areas when you are most apt to stick your fingers in your mouth and start to chew.

· Have your nails manicured regularly (Every 1-2 weeks). Your rewarding and pampering of yourself can be a positive part of your nail biting cure.

Hypnosis is one way of changing your unconscious nail biting habit. Many people have successfully changed their nails from bitten stubs to healthy beautiful nails by using hypnosis.

It's all about changing the nail biting habit,

Sunny
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Ready to Find Your Nailbiting Cure? Minimize Your Chance Of MRSA With These Tips

The Center for Disease Control came out with these guidelines to protect you from picking up a staph or MRSA infection from someone.

How can you prevent staph or MRSA skin infections?

Practice good hygiene:

1. Keep your hands clean by washing thoroughly with soap and water or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
2. Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until healed.
3. Avoid contact with other people’s wounds or bandages.
4. Avoid sharing personal items such as towels or razors.

It's important for many reasons to stop nail biting, find the nail biting treatment that works for you. Whether it's using hypnosis program , a barrier like gloves , or a stop it nail polish, you can find a nail biting treatment that works for you.

In the meantime, carry hand sanitizer and wash your hands. If your cuticles crack or your nails bleed wash them and cover with a bandage till healed. Protect yourself from MRSA and other infections.

It's all about changing the nail biting habit,
Sunny

Nail Biting Treatments To Minimize Your Chance of MRSA

Since posting about MRSA and nail biting, a few "skeptics" have asked me the same questions:


"Are staph infections that easy to get?"

Well the answer is "yes" and "no." If you don't wash your hands, and continue to bite your nails sooner or later you will put staph bacteria in your mouth. If you are unlucky or circumstances aren't in your favor, then yes, you will end up with a staph infection.

If you use good hygiene, wash your hands and avoid people with staph infections you probably won't catch a staph infection.

But people who are into nail biting put their fingers in their mouth when they bite their nails. When they do this bacteria of many types can enter their body. Also people who are nail biters frequently have cracked and bleeding cuticles where bacteria can easily enter.

"Is it REALLY true you could get MRSA by nail biting and die? Or is this just hype?"

Can't say I blame those wondering if MRSA is just hype, either. But people are dying from MRSA.

Just Google MRSA deaths. In the UK according to Medical News Today Superbug MRSA deaths up 1400% in a decade. And so many of the deaths are preventable, just by washing your hands.

Don't take my word for it. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) says "While 25% to 30% of the population is colonized with staph, approximately 1% is colonized with MRSA." Colonized just means the staph bacteria or even worse the MRSA bacteria lives in their bodies.

The staph bacteria or even the MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphyloccus Aureus) doesn't cause these carriers of the bacteria problems. The carriers can cause you problems especially if you are a nail biter.But if they cough, sneeze or spread the bacteria around by not washing their hands you could pick staph bacteria. If you are a nail biter you could touch a surface the MRSA carrier has coughed or sneezed or touched.

So I decided to post this video from YouTube about how easy bacteria is spread around. You'll never look at snacks in the lunch room the same way ever again.

It's all about changing the nail biting habit,

Sunny

Find Your Nail Biting Treatment to Prevent MRSA

If nail biting is a challenge for you or a loved one, you need to seriously consider finding the nail biting treatment to fit you and your life.

Why am I pushing so much? Well there is a type of bacterial infection called MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus).

It's a type of staph infection. You may have seen reports on the news where people who get the infection die. Yes, I said DIE.

This infection is methicillin resistant. What does that mean? Methicillin is a type of very powerful antibiotic in the penicillin family. The bacteria MRSA doesn't respond or die when the methicillin type of antibiotic is given.

According to an ABC news report almost 1% of the US population carries MSRA. That means they have MRSA in their body but it doesn't make them ill.

Many catch MRSA when they are patients in the hospital. Others catch it in the community. It can be picked up in the gym, at school or anywhere someone who has MRSA leaves the bacteria.

So why should you care? Well if you or a loved one is a nail biter, then you potentially are at risk.By nail biting you introduce bacteria in your mouth. Nail biters frequently have cuts or sores on their fingers through which the MRSA bacteria can get in.

Take a few minutes to decide what nail biting treatment plan you want to start and do it today. Some ways to stop nail biting:

• Use a physical barrier such as gloves or finger tip covers.
• Apply a anti-biting polish whose taste discourages nail biting
• Get started with a self-hypnosis program
• See a therapist to start a behavior modification program
  

Your life is too important to not stop. Find your nail biting treatment to stop fingernail biting. There are many nail biting treatment choices available. One is right for you.

It's all about changing the nail biting habit,

Sunny

Nail Biting Cure: More Stress Cutting Tips So You Can Stop Nailbiting

If stress is one of your triggers for nail biting, I've got some more ideas for decreasing stress in your life.

1. Eat Healthy. Many foods actually have effects on our emotions. Some will increase calm and others will increase your stress level.

Foods high and sugar will make life a little more stressful. While protein rich foods like turkey will increase the feeling of calm. Healthy eating is important. Setting up a healthy diet can increase optimal health for each one of us. A healthy diet can help even out the up and down spiral of stress in your life.

2. Stay in touch with friends. Have at least one friend you can call to vent when life gets crazy. Make sure you choose a friend that is willing to listen and not "tell" you what to do and judge you.

3. Create the Zen mindset. Make an island of calm in your life. This place is somewhere you can mentally escape. This way you can take a break and travel in your mind. It's a great place to travel to when everything in your life is piling up.

4. Laugh. Sometimes when stress gets high we forget to laugh. Grab a funny movie at the video store. Google some funny jokes or videos. Steer clean of the gloom and doom.

If stress is a trigger for your nail biting habit, then try a couple of these stress cutting tips.

It's all about changing the nail biting habit,

Sunny

Nail Biting Treatment: Can't Stop Nail Biting Because Of Stress? Try These Tips

Stress today is a given part of life. Frequently stress ripples over and people end up biting their fingernails.

It's easy to understand. Juggling family, career, home and church, it all adds up to an increased pace of life. With this almost frantic pace, increased stress levels can be a natural result.

Stress can impact many areas of life such as work, family, and other relationships. Stress can cause one to experience irritability, impatience, and distractions. For busy people, stress management is a necessity. Here are four tips to assist in living a more stress free life.

1. Determine, no matter what, to create time for yourself. So often people make time for others, but don't take time for themselves. The activity really doesn't matter as long as you take some time for yourself.

2. Listen to calm, soothing music on the way to work, while at work, and while going to sleep. Music has a way of calming and soothing the mind and the body.

3. Practice deep abdominal breathing periodically throughout the day.
Rest your hand on your belly button. Breath in deeply through the nose pulling the belly button toward the spine, hold for a few seconds, and then slowly release. You will be pleasantly surprised at how this simple technique can result in a more relaxed body and mind. This can be done anywhere and anytime.

4. Take time to exercise. Exercise helps to increase self-esteem, decrease depression, increase concentration and energy, and gives one a greater sense of control over stress. Hitting the local gym is not always necessary. Taking a 15-minute walk around the neighborhood, taking walks on lunch breaks, taking the steps instead of an elevator, and parking farther away when shopping are examples of how you can squeeze in exercise during the day.

Your nail biting cure may come as a result of decreasing your stress.
It's all about changing the nail biting habit,
Sunny